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I have a USB HDD that was disconnected from a computer in an improper way. Since than, connecting this disk to any computer has almost no effect: the only thing that changes is the HDD's blue LED that turns on. The computer sees nothing. I tried this on several computer under Win XP and under Ubuntu. The HDD is Verbatim model #53001, 320GB
What can I do in order to access the data on the HDD?
The first thing I would check is if the drive is physically recognized.
dmesg | tail -f
then plug it in on Linux, or check device manager on Windows. It may be that the partition table got corrupted, causing the OS to see no partitions, or the drive may have bigger problems. – a CVn – 2011-06-21T12:13:52.967